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Rated: E · Poetry · Inspirational · #1246418
This poem is about a yearning to transform, to be slim, to be my authentic Self.
Oh, to be the butterfly
with thin, gossamer wings,
colors flowing. . .
                blending.

Now is the time to shed
the cocoon of safety,
to be free. . .
          free to be. . .

Me. 
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